Teriyaki Salmon Bowl (Super SAVORY!)
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Prepped in 15 MINUTES, this healthy teriyaki salmon bowl will quickly join your list of go-to weeknight meals! The marinated salmon is coated with an incredibly delicious homemade teriyaki sauce and served on top of white rice with avocado and edamame.
Not much time tonight? Or you simply don’t feel like standing in your kitchen for an hour? This AMAZING and healthy rice bowl will ensure you a tasty dinner (or lunch) with not much effort!
Make the teriyaki marinade, chop (or not) your salmon and let it marinate while you’re resting from your day. All that is left to do afterwards is cook the salmon and thicken the teriyaki sauce! If you like this kind of quick rice bowl, also check out my Spicy Salmon Poke Bowl.
I used to live in Australia a few years ago, I remember grabbing the teriyaki sauce from the store. I knew teriyaki sauce from Japanese restaurants but here in Belgium, stores don’t sell it. Once I returned from my 3 years spent in Sydney, I thought to myself “why not try to make my own teriyaki sauce since I cannot buy it from anywhere?“.
So I pulled together a few ingredients that I always have at home: soy sauce, garlic, brown sugar (yes, always useful to have it as a crêpe filling) sesame oil (for my Korean cooking) honey, ginger (for my winter tea!). Trust me, I could not believe the result! My sauce tasted EXACTLY like the one you would be served at the restaurant or buy from the store.
I paired my teriyaki sauce with a piece of salmon which I usually like to dice – though the full piece of salmon can also be pan-fried as a whole – some white rice, and avocado. With time I kept making my teriyaki salmon recipe and added extra ingredients such as edamame, green onions, sesame seeds and salted seaweed sprinkles. This dish is SO FAST and SIMPLE to put together that I ended up making it once a week back then. And everyone I made it for fell in love with it!
What to serve teriyaki salmon with?
Avocado goes extremely well in this bowl! I normally also like to vary between cucumber and edamame. Those three are my favorite ingredients to have with teriyaki salmon though you could also pair it with (but not only):
- broccoli
- cauliflower
- green beans
- peas
- eggplant
- mushrooms
- vegetable tempura
Serve salmon and vegetables on top of some white rice, or alternatively any rice of your choice.
How to prepare teriyaki salmon?
- Make the marinade by mixing all the ingredients together.
- Dice the salmon and add it to the marinade. Let it marinate for at least 30 minutes.
- In the meantime, cook your rice.
- Drain the marinade sauce from the salmon. On medium-high heat, add cooking oil and cook the salmon for 5 minutes or until cooked. Remove the salmon from the pan.
- In the same pan, pour the marinade and heat it on medium-high heat for 2-3 min or until the sauce has thickened.
More Japanese recipes to complement teriyaki salmon?
Don’t miss our homemade gyozas to serve as a side dish or appetizer.
Then finish your meal on a sweet note with some quick homemade matcha ice cream for dessert.
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Teriyaki Salmon Bowl
Ingredients
- 300 g salmon
- 2 rice cooker cups rice
- 1 avocado, sliced
- sesame seeds
- salted seaweed sprinkles
- 2 tbsp cooking oil
- 1 green onion, chopped | for garnish
marinade:
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1 tbsp ginger, minced
- 3 tbsp brown sugar
- 5 tbsp soy sauce (Note 1)
- 2 tbsp honey
- 1 tsp sesame oil
- 1.5 tbsp brown thickening agent sauce | or cornstarch (Note 2)
- 125 ml water
Instructions
- Make the marinade by mixing all ingredients together.
- Dice the salmon and add it to the marinade (Note 3). Let it marinate for at least 30 minutes.
- In the meantime, cook your rice.
- Drain the marinade sauce from the salmon. On medium-high heat, add cooking oil and cook the salmon for 5 minutes or until cooked. Remove the salmon from the pan.
- In the same pan, pour the marinade and heat it on medium-high heat for 2-3 min or until the sauce has thickened.
Serve
- In a bowl, add rice, salmon and avocado. Pour the sauce over the salmon then sprinkle seaweed, and sesame seeds and garnish with some green onion.
